Which Way Did They Go?

About the Book

Ponies and Picnics, All in Sequence, Chicken Coops are just some of the curious chapter headings of stories in this "must read" delightful memoir by Mick Jeffs who by chance in 1979 became a tour operator, organising and accompanying holidays at home and abroad across a wide spectrum of destinations.

Mick, a 'lucky bloke' from birth, survived a Siamese twin separation when days old, a huge German bomb landing nearby at three and meningitis (thanks to duck eggs) when he was five. That good fortune has continued throughout his life so far and enabled him to turn impending disasters into triumph. Rejecting a one star shanty town and ending up in a five star resort; restoring the faith of 150 mainly North Country people who expected roast beef and Yorkshire pudding - and got spaghetti bolognese on paper plates; overcoming the problems of a sudden death while escorting 180 people in Florida, are just a few of the stories he tells.

Which Way Did They Go? relates a brief history of Mick's life until 1979, when he found himself in the travel business, and on to 1990 by which time his tour operation, Going Places, was firmly established in Plymouth and the farther reaches of the West country and beyond as a good company with which to travel.

About the Author

Michael John Jeffs, known most of his life as Mick by everyone except of course his mother, was born in north west London just before the outbreak of World War II and had a one-parent upbringing for most of his first eight years. After a wasted four years at grammar school, from which he departed early to join the Royal Navy (from which he also departed early!) he slowly began to make something of himself as a salesman. At 42 good fortune led him into the travel business where he found his real niche organising then accompanying holidays worldwide with his wife Maureen.

This book tells of the many adventures they had and how, in the main, turned disaster into triumph.